Data Storage Engineer

Description

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At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

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The Mission

Leidos is seeking a Data Storage Engineer to support the National Digital Exploitation & OSINT Center (NDOC). This role requires technical expertise in storage engineering, system administration, and operations. This role is responsible for optimizing the configuration of the enterprise storage infrastructure to maximize availability, performance, and capacity. This role participates in the lifecycle process of purchasing, installing, maintaining, and replacing storage devices across on-premise and cloud IT environments.

This role collects and evaluates metrics to optimize storage operations. This individual identifies risks, performs assessments, and analyzes risk mitigation strategies. Finally, this individual is responsible for developing and maintaining system documentation and procedures in accordance with customer requirements. The Customer utilizes an Agile Framework to plan and successfully complete all initiatives.

The work location is in Bethesda at the Intelligence Community Campus.

Full Life Cycle Engineering Duties and Primary Tasks:

Systems Engineering / Architecture / Lifecycle Design

• Design and engineer scalable enterprise storage architectures supporting performance, resiliency, high availability, and mission growth requirements across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Develop logical and physical storage architectures, reference designs, and engineering roadmaps aligned to customer mission requirements and future capacity demands.
• Perform systems design and engineering analysis for storage modernization initiatives, including solution trade studies, technology evaluations, and engineering recommendations.
• Engineer lifecycle replacement strategies for enterprise storage infrastructure, balancing risk, obsolescence, cost, and operational continuity.
• Develop and maintain engineering artifacts including architecture diagrams, low-level designs, interface documentation, data flow mappings, and implementation plans.
• Apply systems engineering principles to storage integration, interoperability, performance optimization, and infrastructure resilience.
• Perform engineering analysis of system dependencies, failure modes, and technical risks; develop mitigation strategies to improve reliability and supportability.

Advanced Engineering / Design Responsibilities

• Engineer and optimize storage solutions for multi-petabyte environments supporting virtualization, GPU/compute-intensive workloads, and mission-critical applications.
• Provide engineering support for performance modeling, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle planning using operational metrics and trend analysis.
• Contribute to disaster recovery architecture, data protection engineering, and continuity solution design for enterprise storage services.
• Experience with systems engineering lifecycle methodologies, including requirements development, systems design, architecture, integration, testing, sustainment, and lifecycle refresh.

• Demonstrated knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
• Familiarity with model-based or traditional systems engineering disciplines, architecture frameworks, and engineering documentation practices preferred.
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